what are the consequences of ignoring a dripping tap?

your water bill will go from $25 one month to $123.76 the next month! believe me, it will effect you in the short term! I neglected 2 leaky faucets...i won't be such a dumbass next time!

This is a big no-no in areas that have drought problems ie. California! Once when I was a Girl Scout, we left a tap dripping for one hour at a drip of about 1 drip per second, or a little faster. In one hour we had a gallon! Where do you think the water comes from?

Did you know that in the summer the Colorado River doesn't even make it into the Sea of Cortez anymore? Shame on Southern California and Las Vegas!

If it is only a dripping tap into a sink, and not a drip out side of the sink, then one and three below. If the drip gets other areas than the sink wet, then all of the below.

1. A HUGE water bill.

2. Damage to the building and the furnishings.

3. Attraction of vermin/insects to a source of the water they need to live.

4. The possibility of mold growth - depending uopn where you live, some of that mold can actually put you in the hospital or even kill you.

It keeps you awake at night. It can also increase your water bill. And it may mean that the drip is getting worse, so fix it while it is small. But if you discover it dripping one morning while getting ready to go to work, don't skip work that day to fix it immediately, because it will not cost you a whole day's pay in added water bills if you let it drip. Just let it drip until you have a chance to fix it when you are off work.

Well, you waste a LOT of water. A dripping tap can waste 3,000 gallons of water per year according to a Bristol University study. That is a LOT of water. Beyond the waste of water, there is the increase in your bill. Since water bills often charge by volume, this can get hefty. The average rate is around 20 cents per 100 gallons. Sounds cheap right? Well, only if you can afford to flush $60 each year for each dripping tap.

A dripping faucet (that drips 4 drops per minute) can waste 5 liters of water everyday.

Drip will continue to get worse over time as will your water bill. If like most of us will get really bad at a time when everything is closed then you will either pay big bucks for a service call or you will end up having to turn the water off to that faucet. Again in you have luck as most there will not be a shut off valve just for that faucet so you will have to turn water off to entire home until you get it fixed.

Dripping taps are a waste of water and I will not try. Australia has been in a drought for 100 years, and we are currently in Level 5 water restrictions.

The drip will continue to get worse and your water bill will continue to increase

put a bucket under it and you will find it fills up after about 2 hours ,multiply that by the time the tap drips for and you can figure out how many thousands of liters you are loosing and probably paying for in a few months

its up to you

are you feeling lucky

are you feeling rich

But to put it another way to make you feel guilty

here is a water distribution table

check out what our drinking water is

25% of the planets surface is land

75%of the surface is water and it is rising

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97%of the Earths water is salt

fresh water is only 3% of all the Earths water

most of it is beyond out reach

now much ice is melting and running into the seas fresh water lost for ever.

STORAGE or Location of % of the fresh water

ice and glaziers 74%

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groundwater 800 meters + 13.5 %

groundwater less than 800meters 11.o%

Lakes 0.3%

soils 0.006%

Atmospheric in circulation 0.0035%

rivers 0.03%

frozen land or permafrost is not included and represent an unavailable storage of 40%

so of the 3% about 11.6 ,is easily available to us ,in rivers, lakes and ground water surface aquifers,more and more of this is becoming contaminated

the damaged stem washer that is probably the cause of the leak will continue to degrade and soon your drip wil become a stream that will be difficult (and foolish) to ignore.

besides, the waste of water is fairly ridiculous considering the little amount of time and money necessary to stop the leak!